He mainly wrote romances, of which Sybil and Vivian Grey are perhaps the best-known today.

Many other places are listed as a location where Arthur holds court in the later romances, Carlisle and London perhaps being the most prominent.

Particularly significant in this development were the three Welsh Arthurian romances, which are closely similar to those of Chrétien, albeit with some significant differences: Owain, or the Lady of the Fountain is related to Chrétien's Yvain ; Geraint and Enid, to Erec and Enide ; and Peredur son of Efrawg, to Perceval.

Though the code of chivalry crucial to later continental romances dealing with the Round Table is mostly absent from the earlier Welsh material, some passages of Culhwch and Olwen seem to prefigure it, for instance when Arthur explains the ethos of his court, saying " e are nobles as long as we are sought out: the greater the bounty we may give, the greater our nobility, fame and honour.

In particular, De Camp argued the plots of the novels are heavily driven by coincidence ; while many things just happened in the romances, the novels are still weakened by the dependence on it.

The late romances, often simply called the romances, are a grouping of what many scholars believe to be William Shakespeare's later plays, including Pericles, Prince of Tyre ; Cymbeline ; The Winter's Tale ; and The Tempest.

Nyrop notes the poetical stories of the " redeeming power of the kiss are to be found in the literature of many countries, especially, for example, in the Old French Arthurian romances ( Lancelot, Guiglain, Tirant le blanc ) in which the princess is changed by evil arts into a dreadful dragon, and can only resume her human shape in the case of a knight being brave enough to kiss her.

* Four generations of the Marshal family, from Isabel de Clare's parents through William fitzWilliam's fictitious bastard son, are the subjects of a series of four historical romances by Mary Pershall.

These books are very different from his later, more famous pieces: they are inspired by Spanish romances and the heroic novels of the preceding century, with a certain intermixture of the marvellous.

The family is devastated and upset at the news of the move, especially Rose and Esther whose romances, friendships, and educational plans are threatened.

In certain medieval European chivalric romances, such as Marie de France's Le Fresne, a woman cites a multiple birth ( often to a lower-class woman ) as proof of adultery on her part ; while this may reflect a widespread belief, it is invariably treated as malicious slander, to be justly punished by the accuser having a multiple birth of her own, and the events of the romance are triggered by her attempt to hide one or more of the children.

Adventure stories that stick to a single, well-described planet are sometimes called planetary romances ; some of these planets are not very realistic and are effectively fantasy worlds.

In the autumn of 1949, Martin Horrell of Grand Central Station ( a radio program known for romances and light dramas ) rejected one of Serling's scripts about boxing because his mostly female listeners “ have told us in no uncertain terms that prize fight stories aren ’ t what they like most .” He then offered some advice: “ I have a feeling that the script would be far better for sight than for sound only, because in any radio presentation, the fights are not seen.

In fact, there are more medieval romances dedicated to narrating the adventures of Gawain than there are even to Lancelot, who is perhaps better known in popular culture today.

In some chivalric romances, such as Le Fresne and the Swan-Children, in the variant Beatrix, some children of a multiple birth are abandoned after the heroine has taunted another woman with a claim that such a birth is proof of adultery and then suffered such a birth of her own.

Many stalls offer cuddly toys as prizes — many teenage romances are established at funfairs, where thrill rides provide ample excuse for embracing.

Of his later writings the most important are the admirable satire on German provinciality — the most attractive of all his prose writings — Die Abderiten, eine sehr wahrscheinliche Geschichte ( A very probable history of the Abderites, 1774 ), and the charming poetic romances, Das Wintermärchen ( 1776 ), Das Sommermärchen ( 1777 ), Geron der Adelige ( 1777 ), Pervonte oder die Wünsche ( 1778 ), a series culminating with Wieland's poetic masterpiece, the romantic epic of Oberon ( 1780 ).

His other famous books are historical romances written under the pseudonym Madeleine Brent.

Flournoy concluded that her " Martian " language had a strong resemblance to Ms. Smith's native language of French and that her automatic writing was " romances of the subliminal imagination, derived largely from forgotten sources ( for example, books read as a child ).

He also claimed numerous other romances, although he did not discuss his marriages, his wives, or his children in his autobiography.

Its English protagonist Edward Waverley, like Don Quixote, a great reader of romances, has been brought up by his Tory uncle, who is sympathetic to Jacobitism, although Edward's own father is a Whig.

The grave of Anya SetonAnya Seton ( January 23, 1904 ( although the year is often misstated to be 1906 or 1916 )-November 8, 1990 ) was the pen name of Ann Seton Chase, an American author of historical romances.

This categorisation has become established, although some critics have argued for other categories such as romances and problem plays.

Two of the pilots ' Flash ' Gordon and ' Fitz ' Fitzgerald begin respective romances with two local schoolteachers-French woman Nicole and expat Englishwoman Mary and both pairs eventually marry although Fitzgerald experiences problems with sexual impotency.

The largest amount of romances comes from the 1500s, although early works were from the 1300s.

Romance at first dealt with traditional themes, above all three thematic cycles of tales, assembled in imagination at a late date as the Matter of Rome ( actually centered on the life and deeds of Alexander the Great ), the Matter of France ( Charlemagne and Roland, his principal paladin ) and the Matter of Britain ( the lives and deeds of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, within which was incorporated the quest for the Holy Grail );, although a number of " non-cyclical " romances also achieved a great deal of popularity.

From around 1200 on, the tendency was increasingly to write the romances in prose ( many of the earlier verse romances were adapted into prose versions ), although new verse romances continued to be written to the end of the 14th century., and it was chiefly in their prose form that many romances were read from the 14th to the 16th century.

Konrad's powers are to be seen to best advantage in his shorter verse romances, such as Engelhart und Engeltrut, Kaiser Otto and Das Herzemaere ; the last mentioned, the theme of which has been made familiar to modern readers by Uhland in his Kastellan von Coucy, is one of the best poems of its kind in Middle High German literature.

With the poems Musarion oder die Philosophie der Grazien ( 1768 ), Idris ( 1768 ), Combabus ( 1770 ), Der neue Amadis ( 1771 ), Wieland opened the series of light and graceful romances in verse which appealed so irresistibly to his contemporaries and acted as an antidote to the sentimental excesses of the subsequent Sturm und Drang movement.

Hammer wrote, besides several comedies, a drama Die Brüder ( 1856 ), a number of unimportant romances, and the novel Einkehr und Umkehr ( Leipzig, 1856 ); but his reputation rests upon his epigrammatic and didactic poems.

It is, however, as a novelist that Wickram has left the deepest mark on his time, his chief romances being Ritter Galmy aus Schottland ( 1539 ), Gabriotto und Reinhard ( 1554 ), Der Knabenspiegel ( 1554 ), Von guten und bösen Nachbarn ( 1556 ) and Der Goldfaden ( 1557 ).

Many of his lesser writings were collected and published as Kriegslieder, Romanzen, Erzählungen und Legenden (“ War songs, romances, stories and legends ,” Berlin, 1838 ).

In his childhood, he learned to appreciate Old French romances as poems and stories, and this early impulse for the study of Romance literature was placed on a solid basis by courses of study at Bonn ( 1856 ) and at the École des chartes.

Contes d ' une vieille fille a ses neveux ( 1832 ), La Canne de Monsieur de Balzac ( 1836 ) and Il ne faut pas jouer avec la douleur ( 1853 ) are among the best-known of her romances ; and her dramatic pieces in prose and verse include L ' École des journalistes ( 1840 ), Judith ( 1843 ), Cléopâtre ( 1847 ), Lady Tartufe ( 1853 ), and the one-act comedies, C ' est la faute du mari ( 1851 ), La Joie fait peur ( 1854 ), Le Chapeau d ' un horloger ( 1854 ) and Une Femme qui deteste son mari, which did not appear till after the author's death.

* Henri Gougelot, Catalogue des romances françaises parues sous la Révolution et l ' Empire, les recueils de romances ( Melun: Legrand & Fils, 1937 )

He became the author of a large number of plays, poems and romances, among which may be mentioned the comedies M. de Crac a Paris ( 1793 ), Le Souper des Jacobins ( 1795 ) and L A gioteur ( 1796 ), and Observations de quelques patriotes sur la nécéssité de conserver les monuments de la littérature et des arts ( 1794 ), an essay written in collaboration with MM.

Ten stories in his next book, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog ( 1940 ), were based less on lavish fantasy than The Map of Love and more on real life romances featuring himself in Wales.

Not all his scientific romances ended in a happy Utopia, and in fact, Wells also wrote a dystopian novel, When the Sleeper Wakes ( 1899, rewritten as The Sleeper Awakes, 1910 ), which pictures a future society where the classes have become more and more separated, leading to a revolt of the masses against the rulers.

* teen's love ( TL ), a more explicit type of shōjo romances, likewise aimed predominantly at the shōjo and josei markets

There is clear evidence for a knowledge of Arthur and Arthurian tales on the Continent before Geoffrey's work became widely known ( see for example, the Modena Archivolt ), as well as for the use of " Celtic " names and stories not found in Geoffrey's Historia in the Arthurian romances.

The most significant of these 13th-century prose romances was the Vulgate Cycle ( also known as the Lancelot-Grail Cycle ), a series of five Middle French prose works written in the first half of that century.

A good artist but a lesser writer, his blood-and-thunder romances included The Snake in the Grass ( 1858 ), Love Me, Leave Me Not ( 1859 ) and My Love Kate, or the Dreadful Secret ( 1869 ).

* Roland ( died 778 ), Frankish military leader and central character in a sequence of Italian verse romances ( as " Orlando ")

As noted by Mistress Toppe ( see below ), a friend of Cavendish ’ s, Cavendish ’ s writings take the forms of poetical fiction, moral instruction, philosophical opinion, dialogue, discourses and poetical romances.

Guido is both funny and charismatic, especially when he romances a local school teacher, Dora ( portrayed by Benigni's actual wife Nicoletta Braschi ), saying she is beautiful like the morning sunrise.

Caxton produced chivalric romances ( such as Fierabras ), classical works and English and Roman histories.

His best works were the verse romances, Otto der Schütz, eine rheinische Geschichte in zwölf Abenteuern ( 1846 ), which by 1920 had gone through over 100 editions, and Der Grobschmied von Antwerpen ( 1868 ).

He wrote a large number of imitations of Anacreon, Horace and the minnesingers, a didactic poem entitled Halladat oder das rote Buch ( 1774 ), and collections of fables and romances.

In addition to epic poems in the Germanic tradition ( e. g. Beowulf and Nibelungenlied ), epic poems in the tradition of the chanson de geste ( e. g. The Song of Roland and Digenis Acritas which deal with the Matter of France and the Acritic songs respectively ) and courtly romances in the tradition of the roman courtois, which deal with the Matter of Britain and the Matter of Rome, achieved great and lasting popularity.

Mascagni himself wrote a pastoral comedy ( L ' amico Fritz ), a symbolist work set in Japan ( Iris ), and a couple of medieval romances ( Isabeau and Parisina ).

In Italy, there exists several 14th century texts in verse or prose which recount the feats of Charlemagne in Spain, including a chanson de geste in Franco-Venetian, the Entrée d ' Espagne ( c. 1320 ) ( notable for transforming the character of Roland into a knight errant, similar to heroes from the Arthurian romances ), and a similar Italian epic La Spagna ( 1350-1360 ) in ottava rima.